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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Miles   28 Apr 1871

Melbourne Botanic Garden 28/4/71

Sir

In accordance with a resolution of the Trustees of the Royal Park, passed at a meeting held this day, I have the honor to inform you of the Trustees permission that the Borough Council of Brunswick may enlarge the area of its cricket ground in the Royal Park by a width of 200 feet at a length of 800 feet on one side, and by a width of 100' also at a length of 800' on an other side as indicated in the marginal sketch,1 but while the Trustees grant this concession with a view of seeing your plans for ealy2 planting of the above indicated area carried out they sanction this enlargement of your cricket ground only on a distinct understanding that the fencing should be performed to entire satisfaction of the honorary Manager of the Park Alb Le Souef Esq., that the fences should always be kept in proper repair and the trees be satisfactorily attended to at all seasons3

I have the honor to be Sir

Your obedient

F. von Mueller

Hon Sec. Trust. Roy. Park

F. G. Miles Esq

Town-clerk of Brunswick

1

Sketch not copied in letter book.

2

early?

3

The permission was revoked unless the proposed development was revised so that it did not take in parts of a park road; see M to F. Miles, 8 July 1871.

Please cite as “FVM-71-04-28,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/71-04-28